Apple CEO Tim Cook rallied employees around AI in rare all-hands meeting, calling it "ours to grab" despite being late to the race. With iPhone revenue up 13% and major internal restructuring underway, Cook bets AI devices won't replace smartphones.
Google launches its most powerful AI yet, but at $250/month and with safety warnings about weapons knowledge, Deep Think raises questions about who gets access to advanced reasoning capabilities.
OpenAI closes $8.3B funding round months early, led by Dragoneer's record $2.8B single check. Early investors got squeezed as demand hit 5x capacity. Revenue jumped to $13B while Microsoft negotiations loom over IPO future.
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Tesla launched its first robotaxi service in Austin with human monitors still in every car. The limited rollout to handpicked influencers reveals the gap between Musk's autonomous promises and current reality, while Waymo operates thousands of truly driverless vehicles across multiple cities.
Mark Zuckerberg just paid $14.3 billion to hire one person. Meta's desperate shopping spree for AI talent reveals how far behind the company has fallen—and creates an awkward problem for competitors who must now choose sides.
ChatGPT's crawlers abandon slow websites before they can respond, generating HTTP 499 timeout errors that cost sites visibility in AI search results. The shift forces a return to server-side rendering as JavaScript becomes invisible to AI bots.
OpenAI executives discussed accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations as their $300 billion AI partnership crumbles over control and money. The breakup would reshape the entire industry and leave enterprise customers scrambling.
TikTok just gave marketers AI tools that turn photos into video ads in seconds. WPP and Adobe jumped on board while TikTok faces a June ban deadline. The race to automate creativity is changing who controls content creation.
Stanford researchers found that Meta's newest AI model can reproduce 42% of Harry Potter word-for-word—ten times more than earlier versions. The findings complicate copyright lawsuits and reveal a troubling trend in AI development.
Meta users think they're chatting privately with AI. Instead, they're broadcasting medical questions, legal troubles, and relationship problems to the world through a public feed that many don't realize exists.
Disney and Universal sued AI company Midjourney for using their characters without permission to train image generators. It's the first major Hollywood lawsuit against generative AI, testing whether copyright law protects creators in the age of artificial intelligence.
OpenAI cut its o3 model prices 80% while launching o3-pro—a reasoning AI that takes over 3 minutes to respond but outperforms rivals on complex tasks. The move intensifies AI pricing wars and splits the market between fast chat models and slow thinking ones.
Publishers built their business on Google sending them traffic. Now Google's AI answers questions directly, cutting out the middleman. Major news sites lost half their visitors in three years. Some adapt with new revenue models, others fight with lawsuits.
Meta spent months claiming its AI was "crushing it" while losing most of its research team. Now Zuckerberg is spending $10+ billion to fix problems he said didn't exist. The crisis shows how AI forces companies to admit failure or fall behind.
OpenAI doubled revenue to $10 billion in six months but lost $5 billion last year. The company bets everything on reaching $125 billion by 2029 while burning investor cash at record pace. Early signs suggest AI growth may be slowing.
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